Kamakura weekend

On Saturday, Carly and I went to Kamakura, a small city about 30 mi. south-west of Tokyo, or a 25 min. train ride from Yokohama, and an old stronghold of the bakufu during the Kamakura period of Japan. We spent the day walking around, visiting some shops, shrines, and sampling some local flav's.


Carly happy at the Shokozan-Tokeiji Temple...also a nunnery, founded in 1285.

Get thee to a nunn'ry! That foliage is divine!

We passed this car, who looked to be quite sad given the drowsy eye he is showing. He also looks like a whale. Sad Toyota whale. Carly and I got a laugh out of him.

Shrine.

Saw a real wedding going on in this shrine. You can make the bride out in the center background of the stage. "Do you know why she is wearing that big head covering?" Carly asked me. "To cover her horns."

Candy apple.

I got Carly's Christmas engines revving when I started singing the "two turtle doves" verse of The Twelve Days of Christmas. But these were probably just dirty, non-Christmas pigeons.

Nothing like a fall brew from Kamakura, swilled roadside under some leaf-giving fall trees.




I was excited to see this in the store. Are these in the U.S. now?! I don't remember seeing them before... Didn't get one, though.